Connection for the meeting ends of rails.



PATENTED OCT. 13, 1903.

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APPLICATION FILED MAY 13,1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented October 13, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

THEODOR GARDIN, OF ESSEN-ON-THE-RUHR, GERMANY, AssIeNoR o FRIEDaKRUPP, or ESSEN-ON-THE-RUHR, GERMANY.

CONNECTION FOR THE MEETING ENDS OF RAILS. I

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters I atent no. 741,482, dated October 13, 1903.

Application filed May 13, 1903. Serial No. 156,977. on model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LTHEODOR GARDIN, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and a resident of 76 Kaiserstrasse, Essen-on-the-Ruhr, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Connections for the Meeting Ends of Rails, of which the following is a specification.

ing the separation of the fish-plate ends from the foot of the rail and preventing the development of the so-called hammering at the joints. At the same time a weakening of the fish-plates in available cross-section is avoided. These objects "are essentially attained according to the'present invention by having the meeting endss-upported bya longitudinal under yoke, which in turn rests upon cross-tongues which are introduced through the fish-plate hangers near their ends.

In the accompanying v drawings one embodiment'of the rail-joint forming the subject of the present invention is illustrated by way of example.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the joint; Fig. 2, a section on the line 2 2, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, a section on the line 3 3, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing'springlamellae instead of a solid yoke. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5, Fig. 4.

The abutting ends of the rails A are connected by the angular fish-plates B in the usual manner. The under hangers b of the fish-plates are provided near their ends with recesses 17*, through whichcross-tongues O in the form of double wedges are introduced. Upon these cross-tongues and between the under hangers b rests a longitudinal yoke D,

the intermediate elevated portion of which supports the. meeting ends of the rails. By driving in the wedges O the yoke D will be firmly pressed against the bases of the rails.

When a loaded wheel reaches the end of a rail upon whichit is running, the latterbears approximately upon the middle of the yoke D, which transfers half of the load to each of the cross-tongues O at the ends of the fishplate hangers. Inconsequence of the simultaneous and equal loading of the two cross-tongues C it will be seen that thefis'hplates, and through them the two rail ends, will be depressed equally. Hence, on the one hand, alifting of the fish-plate ends and, on theother hand, all relative vertical movement of the meeting ends will be prevented, and a smooth and practically shockless passage of the wheel to-the rail end onto which it runs will always take place.

Obviously in the new construction the action' on the fish-plates is essentially more favorable than in those joints in which a crosstongue bears immediately beneath the joint of the rails, besides which a weakening of the fish-plates in available cross-section is prevented. v

Instead of making the longitudinal yoke D of a rigid piece it could be made of superposed spring-lamellze D (see Figs. 4 and 8) in order to render the joint elastic.

Having thus described, the invention, the

following is what is claimed as new therein:

1. A rail-joint having fish-plates, a longitudinal yoke supporting the meeting ends of the rails, and transverse wedges supported by the fish-plates and in turn supporting the longitudinal yoke.

2. A rail-joint having fishplates, transverse tongues in the form of adjustable wedges, supported in the ends of said fishplates, and a longitudidal yoke resting upon said tongues and in turn supporting'the meeting ends of the rails.

3. A rail-joint having a longitudinal supporting yoke upon intermediate points of which the meeting ends .of the rails bear; said yoke being constructedof 'spring-lameL lze and supported at its ends. I

4. A rail-joint having a longitudinal sup- The foregoing specification signed atDusporting -yoke upon intermediate points of seldorf this 1st day of May, 1903. which the meeting ends of the rails bear said yoke being constructed of spring-lannel PHEODOR GARDIN' 5 lne and supported at its ends, by transverse In presence of-- tongues, which are in turn supported in uu- PETER LIEDER, der hangers from fish-plates. WILLIAM ESSENWEIN. 

